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Once outside, we catch a glimpse of tapping heels ducking down a blind alley and it looks like the back of our crowd.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

“Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2021

Feynman warns in The Character of Physical Law, “because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped.

From Scientific American Jul. 24, 2021

The indisputable physical fact of the body turns out to be a blind alley, a mask that obscures as much as it reveals about its identity: names, memories, experiences, epiphanies.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2020

None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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